Liberation of Aleppo: What the Western Media is Shy About Showing © REUTERS/ SANA

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Commenting on the situation in Syria’s Aleppo, veteran French journalist and geopolitical analyst Jean-Michel Vernochet says that it took Russia’s intervention in the conflict for the duplicity of the Western-Arab coalition against Daesh to come to light.

In an op-ed analysis for the independent French news and analysis website Boulevard Voltaire, Vernochet commented on the Syrian Army’s efforts to liberate Aleppo, Syria’s second city, slamming European and American media and officials for what he said was a highly ‘duplicitous’ position.

“On February 1,” the journalist recalled, the Syrian Army, with the support of Russian aviation, launched a large-scale operation to liberate Aleppo, the former economic capital of Syria,” a part of which “has been in the hands of the rebellion since 2012.”

“As always, the media began effusively writing about the crowds of people fleeing from the fighting and the advance of government forces. The only thing missing in the picture being painted were the images of the residents of the city’s Western neighborhoods, who welcomed the government troops as liberators.”